Poll of the Day > When you can't sleep at night do you usually still try your hardest to sleep or

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....do you usually get up and try to find something constructive to do? Around 2:30 am est maybe a lot of you are doin' this now
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Sometimes one or the other

Went to bed super early last night and sure enough I was awake shortly after..

I was about to get up but ended up staring into the darkness long enough to fall back asleep.. any other night I would've played a game or watch Twitch or something
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Most of the time I just lay in bed for 2-3 hours until I fall asleep. But I'm constructive in that time contemplating stuff and thinking of cool scenarios for my D&D game that I DM for.
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Both. Sometimes I just lay in bed and fall asleep eventually others I attempt to sleep for a hour or so, fail that and then get up and do things until I feel sleepy.
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I have mad fucked up jetlag right now, went to bed at 7PM after being up for like 24+ hours travelling but I woke up at midnight and can't get back to sleep. Don't really know what to do since this is the first time I travelled, it's like 2AM now so guess I'll try again for a while.
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I drink
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Smoke a joint or watch a chess match to exhaust myself.
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^Stuff like that and earplugs. Even without, or when it's completely quiet, the earplugs will still enable me to wind back down...

But I can prolong my wakefulness for hours though, if I so choose to, and this morning that is precisely what I decided to do. So both. But am I doing anything I would consider constructive during this time? Not in the conventional sense. But I don't feel obligated to sleep with the rest of the world at the moment, whereas I usually do. The atmosphere of hurricane Harvey is actually pretty cool and has me less stressed out than I normally would be, as the hustle and bustle of the modern world has effectively stopped. So I don't feel bad about staying up tonight, as if I just sleep tomorrow off, there's nothing I'm going to be missing out on.
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I go to bed when I'm tired.

Also, I work third shift, so I'm at work at 2:30 am.
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I'm usually very good at telling when I will and won't be able to sleep and acting accordingly.
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I have a no electronics policy on myself 1 hour before I go to sleep. I usually take that time to read. I haven't had any problems going to sleep switching to that.
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I close my eyes and think of the guy I love.

I put on a lecture or a podcast and it usually lulls me to sleep while feeding my head pertinent info.